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Tami Simon:<\/b> Welcome to the <\/span>Michael Singer Podcast<\/span><\/i>. Michael Singer is the author of the widely influential New York Times best sellers, <\/span>The Untethered Soul<\/span><\/i> and <\/span>The Surrender Experiment<\/span><\/i>, and a new book destined to become a spiritual classic, <\/span>Living Untethered Beyond the Human Predicament<\/span><\/i>. Michael Singer lives and teaches at The Temple of the Universe, the yoga and meditation center he founded in 1975, near Gainesville, Florida.<\/span><\/p>\n

Produced in partnership with Shanti Publications, the <\/span>Michael Singer Podcast<\/span><\/i> brings you select recordings from Michael Singer\u2019s teachings at The Temple of the Universe. This episode is on taking care of your inner environment. Sounds True would also like you to know about an extraordinary eight-part video course we\u2019ve created with Michael Singer. It\u2019s called living from a place of surrender, the untethered soul in action. It\u2019s an online course that many people report to be utterly life changing. You can find out more at michaelsingerpodcast.com. And you can 15 percent off any Michael Singer program available through sounds true when you use the code Singer, numeral one, numeral five at checkout. Again, that \u201cSinger15\u201d. And now taking care of your inner environment with Michael Singer.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Michael Singer:<\/b> Jai gurudev<\/span><\/i> [\u2026]. The spiritual life is really life itself. To separate your life into my worldly life and my spiritual life is to not understand what\u2019s going on. They\u2019re all the same. They\u2019re both the same. They\u2019re additive to each other, there\u2019s nothing to be left out, depending upon how you work with yourself inside. If you don\u2019t work with yourself insid\u2014and very, very few people work with themselves inside\u2014then what is going on inside is just what\u2019s going on inside. If it\u2019s a mess inside, it\u2019s a mess inside. If it\u2019s nice inside, it\u2019s nice inside. People don\u2019t understand\u2014it\u2019s your responsibility. It is your responsibility, just like it\u2019s your responsibility to keep your house clean, your responsibility to make your bed. It is your responsibility to take care of your inner environment. If you don\u2019t take care of your outer environment, bugs and things will crawl in and it\u2019ll become a mess. If you don\u2019t throw your food away, if you don\u2019t clean up the house, it\u2019s going to be a mess. It\u2019s the exact same thing inside.<\/span><\/p>\n

The default of your inside if you do nothing about it is the lowest possible state. Energy falls down to its lowest possible state, which is depression, which it just goes to where you\u2019re just not doing OK inside. You don\u2019t feel well. You don\u2019t feel enthused. You don\u2019t feel love. You don\u2019t feel passion. You\u2019re just not doing well inside. That\u2019s because you didn\u2019t work with yourself. It really is the same. If you don\u2019t drive your car, you\u2019re going to get an accident. If you just take your hand off the wheel and don\u2019t pay attention to what\u2019s going on and just let it go where it goes, you\u2019ll be in bad shape. It\u2019s the same thing inside.<\/span><\/p>\n

You live inside, you don\u2019t live outside. You live inside. There\u2019s a mind in there with you. There\u2019s a heart in there with you. There are energy flows in there with you. If you leave them alone, it\u2019s going to be a mess. People don\u2019t even understand what a mess it is, because they don\u2019t know it doesn\u2019t have to be that way. You just get used to living in a mess. You\u2019re moody. You have problems. You\u2019re sensitive. You don\u2019t like things. You don\u2019t get what you want. You get what you don\u2019t want. You\u2019re afraid. You\u2019re desirous. It\u2019s just a commotion. It\u2019s just uncomfortable inside. Most people are always uncomfortable inside. Very rarely are they comfortable.<\/span><\/p>\n

What this drives you to do if you\u2019re not paying attention\u2014and I\u2019m telling you, people are not\u2014it\u2019s a mess inside. It\u2019s uncomfortable inside. It\u2019s disturbing inside. Nobody wants to live like that. So, instead of straightening it up inside, what will happen\u2014and it\u2019ll happen to everybody, all seven billion of you\u2014is you will realize that certain things can happen outside that make it worse inside.<\/span><\/p>\n

People can say things that disturb you. People who you love can leave you. You can get old and not be as good looking as you used to be, get wrinkles in your face and so on. All kinds of things can go on and will go on that cause disturbance inside. Sometimes things will happen outside that make you feel good inside, but it\u2019s not as much. There are way more things that cause disturbance, that cause discomfort, that cause fears, than there are things that actually make you feel well. I\u2019m not talking about, \u201cMaybe if I get this, I\u2019ll feel well,\u201d but the actual moment of \u201cI feel whole, I feel complete. I wouldn\u2019t change a single thing. Everything\u2019s beautiful.\u201d You must admit, you can count it on your fingers on one hand, versus the things that bother you\u2014there aren\u2019t enough stars in the sky; you\u2019re always getting disturbed by something. That is because it\u2019s disturbed inside.<\/span><\/p>\n

If it is disturbed inside, then events that unfold outside and come into you are going to stir up the disturbances. All of us have different disturbances, therefore different things disturb us, turn us on or off\u2014so, a normal life, which you don\u2019t want. The normal life of a human being on this planet is as follows:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI am not OK inside. I\u2019m not comfortable. I\u2019m always uncomfortable. It\u2019s not comfortable. I have found that certain things can happen outside that made me feel more comfortable. And I can find that there are other things that happen outside that made me feel really worse. So, my task in life is to try to control the environment outside of me so that more often it makes me feel good inside comes in, and less often it unfolds in a way that disturbs me, makes me worse.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

If you dare to be open and look at it, you\u2019ll realize that\u2019s most people\u2019s entire life: trying to figure out what they need or want outside and what they don\u2019t want and don\u2019t need outside, then trying to figure out how to make it be that way. We up going to war with reality. We end up going outside, fighting with people, places, things, situations, everything unfolding, because it\u2019s not the way we want. And then you try to make it be the way you want. By the time you\u2019re done, it\u2019s very difficult to make everybody be the way you want. It\u2019s very difficult to make every situation unfold the way you want. It\u2019s very difficult to have things not happen that disturb you since it\u2019s so easy for us to get disturbed. It doesn\u2019t work.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

We end up getting frustrated, we end up getting tense, and we end up getting anxious. This is the normal state of how people live. That\u2019s a worldly life. It\u2019s just an external life of fighting with the outside to try to make it so you can live with yourself inside.<\/span><\/p>\n

There is an alternative life. It\u2019s so simple, it\u2019s ridiculous. And very, very few people actually walk it, which is:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI live in here. I should straighten it up. I shouldn\u2019t try to find somebody that\u2019ll straighten it up for me. I shouldn\u2019t try to find a job that will turn me on so much that I will be distracted by the disturbances inside of me. I should fix what\u2019s wrong inside of me. This is my house. I live in here. If I\u2019m sensitive, if I\u2019m scared, if I\u2019m insecure, if I have issues going on in here that I don\u2019t like to talk about that cause me trouble, I need to clean up. I need to straighten this up in here. I don\u2019t want to go for the rest of my life keeping garbage inside of me and then trying to make a life outside that either distracts me from it or fits what\u2019s wrong inside of me.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

[On the other hand],<\/span> \u201cSomebody talks to me exactly how I want to be talked to, they give me space when I need space, they feel close to me and say loving things when I need them to, and so this makes me more comfortable inside because of the way this person\u2019s behaving outside\u201d\u2014have you ever met anyone who succeeded at that? You can\u2019t sit there and control and manipulate people and then think they\u2019re going to love you and think it\u2019s going to work out. There\u2019s never a situation, it will never work. What does work is to once and for all sit yourself down and say, \u201cI\u2019m a mess. I\u2019m sensitive. I got things that have to be exactly the way I want them to be from me to be OK, otherwise I get weird inside. I don\u2019t want to be like that.\u201d That\u2019s what you say. \u201cI don\u2019t want to be like that. I want to be able to be OK inside as a starting position so that when I come outside, it\u2019s because I want to share the love that I feel. I want to share the passion that I feel. I want to share the creativity that I feel. I want to share the inspiration that I feel. I want to bring something into the world in front of me, not always be taking something because I\u2019m not OK.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

I am telling you, someday, if you grow in this path, you\u2019ll find out that need is not natural. There are no needs. You need to feed your body or something basic like that. But in terms of social or psychological needs, no. It\u2019s because you\u2019re disturbed inside that you need all these things outside. It\u2019s like, if you get really sick and you make your body really sick, you need a doctor. You shouldn\u2019t need a doctor. If your body is healthy, you don\u2019t need a doctor. Do you? If your mind is healthy, if you are healthy inside, you don\u2019t have needs.<\/span><\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t mean you don\u2019t have relationships. It doesn\u2019t mean you don\u2019t go to work, but you don\u2019t do it out of need. You do it out of love. You do it out of joy. You do it out of expressing the beauty and passion that you feel inside of yourself. Then life is beautiful for you and everyone around you because you don\u2019t have to manipulate them and control them and complain about how they are.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The whole spiritual path\u2014and I haven\u2019t talked about a single technique yet. The whole spiritual path is about waking up and realizing, \u201cI have a mess in here and I\u2019m expecting the world to unfold in a way that makes my mess more tolerable. The driver in front of me better drive at the speed I wanted to drive or I\u2019m getting upset.\u201d That\u2019s called road rage. \u201cThe light better not change; I\u2019m in a rush. It better not rain; I want to go camping. He better not talk to her for more than three seconds, because I get jealous.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Every single thing is predicated upon the fact that \u201cI am not OK inside, therefore you guys get your act together or you\u2019ll be sorry.\u201d It\u2019s cute. There is a way for you to be OK inside, I guarantee you. Everyone. There is a way to be OK inside. It is not true that just because it\u2019s been a mess that it has to stay a mess. If you let your house become a mess, there\u2019re pizza boxes all over the place and bugs, it doesn\u2019t have to stay that way. The minute you decide you don\u2019t want it that way anymore, guess what? You do the work that\u2019s necessary to clean it up. Then it\u2019s just the same as if it was never that way. Is exactly the same inside.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now we get down to what does one do to clean it up inside and \u201cwhy haven\u2019t I been doing it?\u201d The basics of it are always the same. You have stored inside of you things that bother you from the past. You know you have. Whenever something uncomfortable happens, you\u2019re not comfortable with it. Someday, when you meditate deep enough, you realize, what you don\u2019t want is for this uncomfortable vibration that came into you to touch you. It\u2019s almost natural in a sense. \u201cI don\u2019t want something that\u2019s uncomfortable to me to get too close to me.\u201d Outside, you don\u2019t want it to get too close to you. You try to avoid it. You stay away from it. You do the same thing when it comes inside.<\/span><\/p>\n

When a vibration comes in, that is uncomfortable to you, you don\u2019t want it to come all the way back in your face. You don\u2019t want it to actually come all the way in. When a vibration comes in that is comfortable to you, an intimate, loving situation, a beautiful sunset, something\u2019s happening that you\u2019re very receptive to, you\u2019re very open [to it], then you do want it to come in, don\u2019t you? Nothing can get close enough. You want it to come all the way in and touch your whole being. That shows you what\u2019s going on. So, when things come in that are not comfortable, you try to push them away. When things that come in that are ultra-comfortable, you try to hold them, you try to let them come all the way back so you can keep them. That\u2019s very beautiful. Except if you push away something that already happened, where do you think it goes?<\/span><\/p>\n

Does it make the thing not have happened? No. It doesn\u2019t, does it? Period, ever. It means it stays inside of you. You actually store it inside of yourself. So now this uncomfortable thing that was already uncomfortable when it happened. Somebody\u2019s yelling at you, somebody fires you, your house burned down, somebody died. There are things that happen. No question about it. There are things that happen that when they come inside are not comfortable. You know about that yet? OK. It\u2019s reality. Don\u2019t think being spiritual means that doesn\u2019t happen. Don\u2019t you dare think that. What spiritual means is when it happens, it comes in. It\u2019s not fun, it\u2019s a discomfort. And you experience it fully. You let it come all the way back in, learn from it, grow from it, experience it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Someday someone you love will die. Your parents will die. Something will happen. It will happen. Once it happens, it already happened. There\u2019s no reason to say, \u201cI don\u2019t want it to have happened.\u201d You\u2019re living in a fairy land? It happened. So, the question is, what are you going to do with it? What most people do with it, in a sense, is refuse to let it have happened. They say, \u201cNo, I wasn\u2019t finished with my relationship with my mother. I wanted her to live longer.\u201d Whatever the heck it is, it\u2019s called denial\u2014not the psychological level, but it is a spiritual level of denial. You are denying the reality of what took place. Why? Because it\u2019s uncomfortable. \u201cWell, I can\u2019t deny that it happened, and I can\u2019t deny that it\u2019s uncomfortable. So, I\u2019m left with only one choice: honor it\u2019s right to be, learn from the experience of what it\u2019s like to go through an experience like this, become a greater person because I went through this experience. I learned from it. I grew, I learned.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s comfortable. You\u2019re not in there trying to make it be comfortable; you\u2019re in there learning from the discomfort. You\u2019re working out, it starts to hurt, your coach pushes you. He\u2019s not mean; he just knows that the way the muscles work. Unless you get to the point where it\u2019s starting to give off lactic acid (so it feels yucky), and they\u2019ll tell you, if you push it\u2014not too much, but if you push it past that point\u2014the muscle gets stronger. That\u2019s why they say \u201cno pain, no gain.\u201d It\u2019s the exact same thing inside.<\/span><\/p>\n

If you had your way, you would never grow. You would build a little life that\u2019s in a box. And every single thing in it is exactly the way you\u2019re already comfortable, your boundaries, your limits, your sense of what you want. And you go hop in there and lock it up and never go anywhere. You would never grow. There\u2019s no growth there.<\/span><\/p>\n

Growth is when events unfold that are not comfortable. It comes in, it is uncomfortable, but you learn how to be comfortable with uncomfortable. You learn to understand that what discomfort means is \u201cI can\u2019t vibrate at that level. My soul, my being, my consciousness is not evolved enough yet to be comfortable with this vibration.\u201d So, what you do instead is you learn to say, \u201cEvents are going to unfold. They\u2019re going to come into me. I\u2019m going to feel their vibration. Some of them are comfortable. Some of them are not comfortable. That\u2019s fine with me. I honor that. I honor reality. I honor the right to learn from different experiences that unfold. Well, what do I do about the fact that it\u2019s uncomfortable?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

You don\u2019t have a choice of undoing the event. If event has come into you, it has already happened. There\u2019s no undoing it. It has to happen out here, then it goes into your senses, doesn\u2019t it? You pick it up secondhand. If it has already happened\u2014no one has ever undone what already happened. So that\u2019s not a choice. You can\u2019t undo the event. So, now, the event, it comes in and is uncomfortable. Well, things are uncomfortable. I don\u2019t know. You can try to make it comfortable if you want, \u201cOh, boy, my mother died.\u201d You can do that if you want, but that might not work too good.<\/span><\/p>\n

So, what you do is honor\u2014\u201cGee, my mother\u2019s only going to die once. And I was very close to her. It hurts a lot.\u201d Isn\u2019t that beautiful? To me, that pain says, \u201cI love you.\u201d I don\u2019t feel that pain for someone I don\u2019t know.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The pain that you feel at somebody\u2019s death is love. It\u2019s a way of expressing your love. You learn to find a way to be open and receptive to the reality of life that is coming into you, because you can\u2019t undo it. And sometimes it is uncomfortable. Vibration is not always pleasant, and you realize I would like to learn to be comfortable with all vibrations in life. I\u2019d like to learn to be comfortable with reality, with the whole. This is called working on yourself. So, instead of fighting with everybody and fighting with life and getting weird\u2014because things happen\u2014you learn to honor, accept, and respect reality. And you learn how to expand yourself. It\u2019s really an expanding of your being so that what has happened can fit inside of you.<\/span><\/p>\n

Since we didn\u2019t do that in the past\u2014very few people do that, don\u2019t feel bad. The natural tendency is to push it away. \u201cI don\u2019t want to experience this.\u201d Therefore, you didn\u2019t let it come through. You stored it inside, and you have this entire collection of stored things from the past that bothered you. That collection is going to ruin your life. It\u2019s just that simple. That\u2019s the junk. That\u2019s the pizza boxes that you left inside because you never cleaned up as you went through your life. You didn\u2019t finish, they didn\u2019t finish. They\u2019re stuck inside of you. Now to do it very briefly. Anything you have stuck inside of you is going to drive you crazy. Someone\u2019s going to say something, you\u2019ll feel weird. You\u2019ll see a billboard that will remind you of it. Then you\u2019ll be afraid of seeing a billboard or you\u2019ll be afraid of seeing this person again, because they always push your buttons. You\u2019re filled with this stuff and now you have to adjust your life so that it doesn\u2019t disturb you.<\/span><\/p>\n

At some point you collect enough stuff, and you, in a sense, abstractly relate everything to it. At first, it was, \u201cI had trouble with George. It was a bad relationship, I hadn\u2019t known. So, I don\u2019t want to have a relationship.\u201d Then you had a trouble with somebody else and then you always say, \u201cWell, I just don\u2019t like men of that age. So, we just don\u2019t get along well.\u201d Then you have another one. Sit there and say, \u201cI don\u2019t like men that are cowboys or firemen or this or that.\u201d And you keep broadening it out. And eventually \u201cI don\u2019t like men at all. \u201cPeople get like that. It\u2019s just, you have no more room left in you where an event can take place that doesn\u2019t hit your stuff. Do you understand that? Please understand that. You don\u2019t want to be like that.<\/span><\/p>\n

You can\u2019t have a nice life if your insides are that messed up. And then you try to control the life around you so that it doesn\u2019t hit your stuff. So the alternative is to say, \u201cI don\u2019t want that stuff inside of me.\u201d What stuff? Any of it? \u201cI don\u2019t want any of it inside of me. I want to be open. I want to be receptive. I want to be able to handle the reality that\u2019s unfolding in front of me and finish it off.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I told you I maintain a rule. I\u2019m very strict about it. Not always successful, but I maintain a rule. If it\u2019s not happening outside, it\u2019s not happening inside. I give them the room, if something\u2019s happening outside and it\u2019s disturbing, OK. That\u2019s tough. It\u2019s hard. But when it\u2019s no longer happening outside, there ain\u2019t no way I\u2019m letting that go on inside, otherwise it\u2019ll never go away.<\/span><\/p>\n

If somebody\u2019s yelling at you, it\u2019s not comfortable. Then they stop up yelling. Don\u2019t worry, they won\u2019t stay there yelling; nobody ever has. And then they walk away. I don\u2019t want this disturbance still inside of me. It\u2019ll never go away. Now I\u2019ve got scars inside of me because somebody yelled at me. No. If it\u2019s not going on outside, it ain\u2019t going on inside. I\u2019m going to let the energy pass through. I\u2019m going give it the room to finish so I don\u2019t have to carry it with me. That is the essence of spirituality. That is the essence of yoga. That is the essence of every single thing that has anything to do with spiritual growth. You cannot have that stuff inside of you. The highest technique you can do is to let go of your stuff.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s to basically sit there and say, \u201cI don\u2019t want this stuff inside of me. I don\u2019t care what it costs.\u201d I spend my money on lots of things; you do too. Nothing buys what that\u2019s worth. In fact, the reason you\u2019ll spend your money on a new car or a boat or a vacation is you\u2019re so disturbed inside, you need a vacation from yourself. \u201cI need a vacation from this junk that comes up inside of me.\u201d And I\u2019m telling you, that\u2019s where you spend all your money. That\u2019s why you need a nicer house. You need a nicer house because the Jones having a nicer house than you makes you feel insecure, because you don\u2019t feel good about yourselves. And now you have to go out and get a nicer house.<\/span><\/p>\n

Everything you\u2019re spending your money on\u2014you\u2019re better off, this is a better way to spend your money. If you\u2019re going to have some pain, some discomfort, and have to do some work, get paid properly. What gets paid properly is \u201cI want less of me. I want less stuff inside. I want less stuff inside.\u201d How would you like to be able to wake up in the morning and giggle without a single thought on your mind? Not one single thought. Just like \u201cI\u2019m back! I wonder what\u2019s going to happen today.\u201d And be all excited to find out what\u2019s going to happen today, to have no notion, concept, view, opinion, preference, just like, \u201cWow, it\u2019s Christmas morning. There are going to be events that unfold in front of me during the day, I wonder what they will be!\u201d And just have the blast of your life. And if something happens that\u2019s challenging, then play chess. Be challenged.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

People put themselves\u2014 wait a minute. Sometimes people come up to me and they say, \u201cYou don\u2019t understand. So challenging.\u201d Chess champions put them themselves in these amazingly challenging situations, don\u2019t they? Mountain climbers\u2014oh my God. That\u2019s pretty challenging. And life-defying. There are people that go out of their way to purposely put themselves in very challenging situations. Why? Why do they do that? Because it brings out the best in you. It makes you dig deep and bring out the best that you are and makes you better than you were before, doesn\u2019t it? That\u2019s why we have competitions, that\u2019s why you climb mountains, that\u2019s why you challenge yourself to your limits. Why can\u2019t you let the everyday events that are unfolding in your life be your mountain climbing, be your chess match? They are just there. If they\u2019re challenging? Good. I\u2019m glad they\u2019re challenging. That\u2019s exciting. That\u2019s better than being bored, isn\u2019t it? It\u2019s better than just floating through empty, dark space.<\/span><\/p>\n

You get to the point where you realize, \u201cI have made a mess inside and I am going to clean up the mess I made inside so that I can enjoy the rest of my life.\u201d Not enjoy it conditionally. It doesn\u2019t have to be a certain way for me to enjoy it. I enjoy it. What? Life. I enjoy the moments that are unfolding in front of me. They\u2019re challenging. They\u2019re exciting. I don\u2019t need dreams. I don\u2019t need to dream about \u201csomeday it\u2019ll be the way I want.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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MS:<\/b> People make a big deal out of dreams as if they\u2019re spiritual. Dreams are not spiritual. I\u2019m not talking about your inner dreams; I\u2019m talking about this notion that \u201csomeday my ship will come in.\u201d All you\u2019re doing is saying, \u201cI\u2019m not OK, but maybe someday I will be.\u201d I don\u2019t want you to say someday \u201cI will be\u201d; I want you to be OK right now, right where you are. The Buddhists say, \u201cBloom where you are.\u201d I want you just to sit there and say, \u201cI can make something beautiful out of every moment of my life if I\u2019m beautiful inside. But if I\u2019m problemed inside, I can make a mess out of every single moment of my life. I can get tense. I can get anxious. I can get scared, insecure. Can\u2019t I? I\u2019m good at it.\u201d I\u2019m telling you. So now we have the groundwork.<\/span><\/p>\n

The groundwork is you have this stuff stored inside of you. You do not want it in there. That\u2019s your main technique. I haven\u2019t given a technique yet. That\u2019s your main technique. \u201cI don\u2019t want that stuff inside of me.\u201d I used to say it\u2014I\u2019m going to say it again, but my friends yell at me when I say it. If there were a 50-gallon vat, an oil drum filled with roaches and snakes, and I had a choice, or you have a choice, of having this stuff inside of me or having somebody shove me inside that bin, you better pick going into the bin because it\u2019s much more comfortable. Because at least the bin is outside of you\u2014do you understand that? Being in there with the maniac, who\u2019s not happy about anything, who\u2019s got a lot of preferences, I don\u2019t like it. You got all these scars from before; you understand that that is not fun.<\/span><\/p>\n

So, you make this phenomenal commitment. It\u2019s a very personal commitment, has nothing to do with your wife or husband or boyfriend or girlfriend or children, anything; it has to do with you. This is your life. You were given the time between your birth and your death. That\u2019s a gift that was given to you, wasn\u2019t it? You\u2019re here. You don\u2019t know where you came from. You don\u2019t know where you\u2019re going, but you know you have this time between your birth and your death. Do you really want to live it scared to death? You really want to live it like this? \u201cThat I\u2019m so screwed up inside, that maybe I can manipulate and control the world around me, so it doesn\u2019t bother me too much. Or maybe I can find somebody that makes it tolerable.\u201d No. And so you take arms against it. You sit there and say, \u201cI am not going to leave this stuff inside of me.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

This is my life, it\u2019s my job. It\u2019s not somebody else\u2019s job. I put it in there. I\u2019m going to let it go. And so now you live this great life. It doesn\u2019t sound like a spiritual life, but it\u2019s the ultimate of a spiritual life. You make a vow, and you remember it every morning, every evening. First, \u201cI am not putting anymore in here. If an event takes place in my life, now that I\u2019m conscious enough and I woke up, if an event unfolds in my life and it is uncomfortable to me, I am going to make sure that I let it go.\u201d That\u2019s as simple as that. How you do it? Those are what I mean by techniques. But underneath there has to be that commitment, \u201cIt will not stay inside of me.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

You say that about all kinds of things. You love somebody, you go to great ends to get them, don\u2019t you? You want to go on a vacation? Oh my God, you\u2019ll work overtime. You do all kinds of stuff. What do you gain\u2014a week? And then you\u2019re back to your same place.<\/span><\/p>\n

Do something that works, that lasts. Do not build this stuff inside of you. So, you start\u2014and you don\u2019t start with all that stuff you already built in there; that\u2019s too hard. You start with the new stuff that\u2019s happening. And you sit there and say, \u201cI can handle that it rained when I wanted to go camping. I can handle the person\u2019s driving slowly in front of me when I\u2019m a rush. I can handle the fact that I wanted to wear a certain outfit, but Sally said she was going to wear it to the party and heck if I\u2019m wearing the same thing as her.\u201d Can you handle these big, amazingly traumatic things?<\/span><\/p>\n

You\u2019re going to your senior prom in high school and these little zits or something shows up on your face, comes to visit you, have a little imperfection. Can you handle it? You\u2019re sitting on a planet, spin around in the middle of nowhere and this little tiny, 16th of an inch thing changes, and you\u2019re weird. You have to sit there and say, \u201cI can handle it.\u201d Why? Because the alternative is to say, \u201cI can\u2019t handle it.\u201d If you can\u2019t handle, it\u2019s going to ruin your life. You\u2019ll be weird for the rest of your life because that happened in high school. Don\u2019t tolerate this. So, it\u2019s something you do inside yourself where you say, \u201cI am going to find a way to let things pass through me. They may be uncomfortable. They\u2019re happening, but I\u2019m not going to keep them inside of me.\u201d That\u2019s the first commitment. You say it to yourself. How do you do that?<\/span><\/p>\n

People say, \u201cI don\u2019t know how to do that.\u201d I agree you don\u2019t know how to do that. If you knew how to do it, you would have already done it. So there\u2019s this word in English language called \u201clearn.\u201d You didn\u2019t know how to do calculus when you first went to school. You didn\u2019t know how to play tennis first time you pick up a racket. You didn\u2019t know how to play the piano first time you sat down, did you? But you didn\u2019t say, \u201cNo, I can\u2019t play the piano. I don\u2019t know how.\u201d You knew you were there to learn. You need to learn how to do this. And don\u2019t say, \u201cNo, I\u2019m not capable of doing this.\u201d Yes, you are. You are capable of doing this. You would not have made it to the human race if you were not. That\u2019s one of the perks of having taken a human birth; you\u2019re capable of doing this.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s like, if I walk into your house and there\u2019s pizza boxes over the place and all kinds of junk going on. \u201cNo, I don\u2019t know how to clean it up.\u201d Yes, you do. You\u2019re not going to convince me you do not how to clean that up. It\u2019s just, you don\u2019t want to. It\u2019s the same thing here. You do know how; it is instinctual and natural to you. I\u2019ll prove it to you. If an event takes place outside\u2014a person\u2019s driving in front of you, is the [example] I\u2019m going to use; everyone likes that one. Driving 10 miles an hour slower than the speed limit in front of you and you\u2019re in a rush. How are you doing? The answer better be \u201cfine.\u201d Why? Otherwise, you\u2019re not doing fine, otherwise you just ruined your day because somebody\u2019s driving slow in front of you. How did that help?<\/span><\/p>\n

Did it make her drive faster? No. Did it make him take a left and get out? No, it didn\u2019t do a single thing. It\u2019s what we call irrational. What is irrational? If you do a cost-benefit analysis and there\u2019s 100 percent cost and 0 percent benefit, and you do it anyways, what is the benefit of you not being able to handle what is actually happening in front of you such as somebody driving slower than the speed limit? Now, I told you if there\u2019s room to pass, pass. I\u2019m not telling you to sit there and be a masochist. But if there is no room to pass and you\u2019re going to be driving like this for a little while, I am highly encouraging you to enjoy it. Why? Because the alternative is to make a mess out of your life for absolutely no gain. This is what I meant when I started, when I said you don\u2019t know what it\u2019s like to live in there and drive the car, to clean up.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is of no benefit. It\u2019s bad enough that the person\u2019s driving 10 miles an hour below the speed limit. It\u2019s worse that you\u2019re bothering yourself about it. These things are not related, they\u2019re different events, aren\u2019t they? They\u2019re completely independent events. Something\u2019s happening outside, the fact that you\u2019re bothering yourself about it inside is something you\u2019re doing. Well, I highly advise to stop doing it. And that\u2019s why when I say to you are capable of doing it. People say, \u201cI\u2019m not capable.\u201d I say, \u201cLearn.\u201d They say, \u201cI don\u2019t understand.\u201d No. You know how I know you\u2019re capable? Because you are the one who\u2019s doing it. It\u2019s like maybe if I told you to pick up Mount Everest. \u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

But if I say to you right now, \u201cYou\u2019re about to put your hand on a hot stove, don\u2019t do it.\u201d There\u2019s no way you\u2019re not capable of not doing it because you\u2019re the one who\u2019s doing it. You\u2019re about to do it. Just don\u2019t. Just withhold the urge to do it. And then it will be done. It\u2019ll be over. It\u2019s the exact same thing with the person driving in front of you. There\u2019s a person driving in front of you\u2014that is not disturbing; it\u2019s just somebody driving in front of you. You have to go out of your way to make it be disturbing. You start saying, \u201cWhat\u2019s wrong with you?! You should be driving in the right lane.\u201d It is something you\u2019re doing, just don\u2019t do it. Don\u2019t do it. Here\u2019s where techniques come in.<\/span><\/p>\n

At that moment when you see this tendency, it\u2019s just a habit-formed tendency to create trouble for yourself. I don\u2019t want you to create trouble for yourself. This is not about getting to know God. This is not about some spiritual journey. This is not about awakening the kundalini. (Although all of that will happen naturally. That\u2019s what\u2019s so funny.) This is about why do you want to ruin your life? Bad enough somebody else ruins it. Why do you want to ruin your life? Why do you want to go out of your way to make yourself uncomfortable? It doesn\u2019t make sense, does it? Then don\u2019t do that.<\/span><\/p>\n

There are techniques. For example, there\u2019s affirmation. \u201cWell, what do you mean?\u201d I\u2019m sitting there, I\u2019m driving and I\u2019m in here, I notice my mind is about to get negative about the way the person\u2019s driving in front of me. Very good. So, what I do is before it can start, I take over the mind. You can use your mind, make a count to 10 right now inside. That do it? See, you\u2019re the boss. The problem is you\u2019re not using your mind. And when you don\u2019t use, it uses itself, doesn\u2019t it?<\/span><\/p>\n

You\u2019re not telling it to get upset about the driver in front of you. It\u2019s doing that out of habit. So, what you do is when it starts to do it, there\u2019s affirmation, sounds like, \u201cOh my God, do I love the way this person\u2019s driving.\u201d I literally have taught my mind to say, \u201cHey, I want to drive the way I want to drive. Then they get to drive the way they want to drive. I don\u2019t want anybody taking away how I drive. I don\u2019t want to take away how they drive.\u201d You just start using your mind to say something constructive, to say something more positive, so that then, when you\u2019re doing that, it can\u2019t be doing the other thing. It doesn\u2019t do both at once. When you\u2019re using your mind, it can\u2019t be spewing this negative stuff. It\u2019s only when you stop driving in there. If your hands on the wheel, your car\u2019s going to go where you\u2019re putting it. Take your hand off the wheel, who knows where it\u2019s going. That\u2019s what this is like inside.<\/span><\/p>\n

Affirmation is one way. Another way is, if you meditate, if you are meditator, and you learn to follow your breath\u2014which is a very, very good thing, to meditate. This is a good time to do it. If you\u2019re not going to do affirmation, you\u2019re driving, so you\u2019re going slower than you normally would. You\u2019d usually go 15 miles over the speed limit. This person\u2019s 10 miles under the speed limit. Therefore, we got all this time, while you\u2019re driving so nice and slowly and safely\u2014follow your breath. Just start watching your breath. Instead of wasting your time doing something destructive, do something constructive. You tell me, who\u2019s stopping you from doing that? Nobody. That\u2019s what\u2019s so funny. There\u2019s nobody in there but you, you do whatever you want in there. Don\u2019t think this doesn\u2019t matter. This is going to change your life.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now by the time the person turns off, if you even notice, because you are enjoying the experience as it is, they turn off, you\u2019ve had a nice time. You\u2019re in a good mood. You\u2019re ready to go to work.<\/span><\/p>\n

The other way, you already went to work. You\u2019re burned out before you get there. Then, when you get there, all you can do is tell everybody how terrible the driver in front of you was, what a terrible experience that was. Then you come home and tell it to your husband or wife. Oh my God, which is better? I\u2019m asking you, I\u2019m begging you, to do a rational cost-benefit analysis about how you are living inside yourself. Don\u2019t call it spiritual, call it rational. It\u2019s just a rational thing to do.<\/span><\/p>\n

You do it with the food. You look at your food before you eat it, and you see if it\u2019s going to make you sick. You may like it, so you eat a little bit, but you do make rational decisions. You don\u2019t make any rational decision about your thoughts. 99.9 percent of human beings who walk this earth, make no rational decision about their thoughts. They just let them be where they are. They like something, so \u201cI like it. OK, I like it.\u201d We didn\u2019t even know where that came from. Where\u2019d that thought come from? So, you start working with yourself. I call this working with yourself. It\u2019s a beautiful thing to do. You do it every moment of your life, especially when things are disturbing you. It\u2019s not about the big things, it\u2019s about the little things.<\/span><\/p>\n

We end up being disturbed all the time\u2014by a mosquito, \u201cIt\u2019s too hot out,\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s raining and I don\u2019t want it to be,\u201d this, that, all kinds of stuff. Instead you start working to train yourself to be happier, to be more positive, to be able to handle the events that are taking place in life. If you will let these things pass through you, they will pass through you. I say this all the time, but I mean it\u2014there is no super glue in there. If stuff is stuck inside of you, you did it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Listen to me, there\u2019s nothing inside. It\u2019s just empty, it\u2019s just energy, it\u2019s just pure energy. So, if an event comes in, it passes right through; you learn from it, you experience it, you become a greater being because you experienced it, but it will not stay in there, I assure you. I\u2019ve done this journey for 45 years. I\u2019ve watched it very carefully. Nothing will stay in there, nothing. No matter how bad it is, no matter how disturbing it is, this stuff\u2019s going to come in; you don\u2019t stand in front of it, you don\u2019t try to stop it, you don\u2019t try to control it or rationalize it or do anything; you just let it go. Let it blow across your face like wind. And eventually it\u2019s like, \u201cOoh, this is exciting.\u201d You can have as much fun as you want with life.<\/span><\/p>\n

That\u2019s a second technique. The first one is, try to be positive, work with affirmation, work with positive thinking. That\u2019s fine. All right. Your second one step deeper. Just because your mind is saying something doesn\u2019t mean you have to listen. Just because it\u2019s in there saying, \u201cWhy are you driving like that? I don\u2019t like it. You should be driving [blah blah blah] \u2026\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t have to listen to that. I can put my attention on my breath. Your consciousness is where you live. If you put your attention on something other than the neurotic mind, you\u2019re going to find out it quiets down. If you don\u2019t listen to it, it will quiet down. You\u2019ve heard it said, \u201cAn ignored guest quickly leaves.\u201d All right. So that\u2019s a second technique.<\/span><\/p>\n

A third technique, which happens to be the highest, but you need to work your way to it, is to notice, \u201cThere it goes again. There is the disturbed mind being disturbed.\u201d Relax. \u201cWhat do you mean? It won\u2019t relax.\u201d I didn\u2019t tell it to relax\u2014I told you to relax. You are in there noticing the mind being disturbed. How do you know the mind\u2019s disturbed? How do you know the mind\u2019s complaining about the person in front of you? Because I\u2019m in here, and I notice it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Relax back into where you notice from. Did you hear that? That\u2019s what it means to meditate on yourself. Relax back to where you notice from, as opposed to relaxing into what you\u2019re noticing. That is the highest technique you will ever use. When you learn that no matter what\u2019s going on in front of you, you don\u2019t have to pay attention to it. You can just relax and release. At that point, what you\u2019ve done is given plenty of room for it to pass through. You are the one who\u2019s in the way, you\u2019re in the way. You take away the block that your will is creating that, your resistance is creating, it will pass right through. Take down the Hoover Dam and the Colorado river will go exactly back to the way it was however long ago they built the Hoover Dam. Get out of the way, because you\u2019re the dam. Get out of the way. Do not resist. Relax and release.<\/span><\/p>\n

That\u2019s the highest thing. Relax and release and the energies will pass right through you, and they will not leave a single scar. They\u2019ll just be there when they\u2019re there and then they\u2019ll be gone when they\u2019re not. So, this is your technique. I call it working with yourself, because you are working with yourself. Instead of manipulating, controlling the world around you to try to make it fit your messed up self, you\u2019re letting go of yourself. Then ultimately what will happen\u2014and it\u2019s a very natural process\u2014is, as you let go of the everyday things that are happening now, the old stuff will start to come up. Why? Because you didn\u2019t shove new stuff down on top of it. It will release naturally. It\u2019ll come up in your sleep.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019ll come up while you\u2019re just minding your own business you were doing well, and all of a sudden, the stuff\u2019s coming up. Good, that is what is supposed to happen. It\u2019s called purification. If that stuff is in there, it\u2019s either going to stay down there and run your life from underneath or you\u2019re going to be willing to let it go. And you want it to come up, and you want to let it go. Now that sounds scary, because you know there are things in there you just assumed you\u2019d never see again. That\u2019s why they\u2019ve been shoved down there so far.<\/span><\/p>\n

Because you\u2019ve practiced with these everyday things, the car in front of you, the fact that it rained and we didn\u2019t want it to\u2014they seem like trivial things, they\u2019re not. They\u2019re just like\u2014when you learn to play the piano, they don\u2019t give you Beethoven; they give you scales. \u201cOh, scales.\u201d Yes. But what do scales have to do with being able to play Beethoven? Everything.<\/span><\/p>\n

As you learned to play your scales, you were getting the basics down about how to move your fingers, about timing, about all kinds of stuff. It is exactly the same with this. As you learned to let go that somebody didn\u2019t say hello or somebody didn\u2019t act the way you wanted them to, or the car in front of you was a problem, or it rained when you didn\u2019t want to, those are your scales. [\u2026] Nothing is small enough to not be worth letting go of. Not big enough, small enough. The slightest thing that happens, if you feel resistance, learn how to relax behind the resistance and let it go. Because you learned your scales, now you can play some.<\/span><\/p>\n

Because you learned these basic techniques of relaxing and releasing and surrendering and letting go, now a bigger thing will come up. \u201cWhat do I do?\u201d The same thing. \u201cBut I don\u2019t know how to.\u201d Of course, you don\u2019t know how to; you just haven\u2019t done it with something bigger yet.<\/span><\/p>\n

You don\u2019t know how to play Beethoven just because you go with your scales. But now we\u2019re ready to try something. You\u2019ll flub around a little bit, but you\u2019ll be able to do it because you got the basics now.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

When this thing comes up, do the same thing, relax and release. You welcome it, that\u2019s the highest thing I can teach you. You are to welcome the disturbances that come up inside of you. Why? Because the alternative is to keep them. Remember how we started\u2014you don\u2019t want them in there. You don\u2019t want them. You want beauty in there. You want love in there. You want enthusiasm, excitement, passion, inspiration, don\u2019t you? Well, you can\u2019t have it when you got the other stuff in there, it\u2019s already\u2014tank\u2019s full. Tank\u2019s full of poison. You have to be willing to let it go. So, you change your attitude about stuff.<\/span><\/p>\n

So, what happens? It starts to come up, you relax and release behind it. A couple of big ones will come up, and you\u2019ll get good at it. That\u2019s all it takes. Because what\u2019ll happen, at some point you will let go enough to where not only is it not a negative that that stuff\u2019s in there, but all the energy you used to use to keep it down, to fight with it, to control the world so it didn\u2019t hit it, is now liberated. You literally free that energy and it will start going up. And I\u2019m telling you, it will go up, and you will start to feel these waves of love, of joy, of <\/span>shakti<\/span><\/i>, of chi flowing up inside of you, literally flowing up. It\u2019s not a figurative statement. It is an upward rush, rushing through your being, and it lifts your heart.<\/span><\/p>\n

It lifts your heart like when you fell in love\u2014but there\u2019s nobody there. It\u2019s just something inside of you raising you, lifting you. You find yourself smiling all the time. Basically, your whole life changes. You will find that you get smarter than you used to be. You can remember things better. You can do more calculations in your head. You will find that you get inspired and have intuition, intuitive inspirations that happen. It\u2019s just your whole life changes because all that energy you were using to fight with the negative stuff, to keep the negative stuff and then fight with everything about it is liberated to be able to come up. And when it starts coming up, your whole life changes. All the chakras open. All the beauty of what you think of is spirituality that you try to make happen, happens naturally.<\/span><\/p>\n

Literally every single center of energy will open. You will feel it open, and you\u2019ll feel how the energy flows through them, until eventually all of it just flows up and fills you with joy and love and ecstasy\u2014while you\u2019re working, while you\u2019re doing anything. Just like\u2014hey, you can be depressed while you\u2019re working, can\u2019t you? You can get down while you\u2019re working, and you can be negative while you\u2019re working. Why can\u2019t you be positive while you\u2019re working? Why can\u2019t it be a beautiful, positive experience?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This is what it means to walk the spiritual path. If meditation helps\u2014and it does\u2014meditate. If mantra helps\u2014and it does\u2014do mantra. If positive thinking helps\u2014and it does\u2014do positive thinking. Whatever technique, yoga, whatever it is, find things that work for you to help you work with yourself. But the important thing is, do you understand that you don\u2019t want that stuff inside of you that you stored inside of you, and then try to compensate with it with the rest of your life?<\/span><\/p>\n

You commit yourself every day to let go of a piece. Every day when you wake up in the morning, before you do your practices\u2014you remember what I said? You sit there and say, \u201cThere\u2019s going to be less of me when I go to bed tonight. I don\u2019t know how much less, but there will be less. I am not putting more in. And if some comes up, I\u2019m letting it go.\u201d And every night when you go to bed, you check it out. Don\u2019t worry about what you did. Don\u2019t review everything and judge yourself. Just sit there and say that\u2014\u201cI let some of it go. Did I do my best letting some of this stuff go?\u201d Then sleep well and get up and get another day. Every single day do that. And then you come back, and you tell me what happens.<\/span><\/p>\n

Because I know people that meditate five hours a day, six hours a day for years and do not have the growth that takes place if you do this. You know what happens when you meditate? They say you did your practices. That\u2019s why they\u2019re called practice. They\u2019re preparing you for the real work, which is letting go of yourself. Christ said what? \u201cYou must die to be reborn.\u201d You will find that the essence of all spiritual teachings is what we just talked about. That\u2019s what it means to die to be reborn. You are willing to let go of your personal self so that you can rise up and ascend to the beauty that\u2019s inside of you. Work with these things. <\/span>Jai gurudev.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

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